Scholars say team operations reflect cognitive operations. Shen Boyang refutes: I did not establish a content farm to spread conspiracy theories.
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In response to Luo Shihong's accusation that his team used cognitive warfare techniques, DPP Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang responded that he only studied China's cognitive warfare techniques and did not use them in the election, and called on his opponent Weng Xiaoling to criticize based on facts.
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Why It Matters
Shen Boyang is a cognitive operations researcher who has recently been controversial with his opponents and academic circles due to his election remarks.
Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, has set off a wave of controversy since his candidacy. National Chung Cheng University professor Luo Shihong posted on Facebook yesterday (20th) that Shen Boyang is an expert in cognitive operations, and his team’s operational logic exactly reflects the internalization and replication of cognitive operations techniques in democratic elections. Shen Boyang responded today that he is not engaged in cognitive warfare and that such a negative labeling method will not succeed.
Shen Boyang attended the Dadaocheng Autumn Harvest Season interview this afternoon and said that he is indeed a person who studies cognitive warfare, but he would like to emphasize again that cognitive warfare is a war "between countries". He mainly studies Chinese techniques, but his team is not using Chinese techniques. He asked rhetorically, did he set up a bunch of content farms and spread certain conspiracy theories or something like that? These are typical Chinese methods, but his team is not doing this.
He said that he didn’t know how many years ago the books on cognitive warfare were published. More and more people are understanding the methods of cognitive warfare, so this way of labeling him negatively will not succeed.
Regarding recent polls, he said that the real situation still depends on turnout rate and voting intention. In such a five-wave election, everyone is cautious and fearful, and no one is relaxed.
Another media asked: Weng Xiaoling, a legislator from the Kuomintang, sang a song "Want to See You" today, urging Shen Boyang to abide by his duty and attend the Legislative Yuan meeting. Shen Boyang said that others are in the Legislative Yuan today, but today the National Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled to inspect, but they are in the Legislative Yuan. He hopes that Weng Xiaoling will criticize based on the facts, otherwise he does not want to respond every time to slap him in the face.
Open Questions
- Will there be further dialogue between Shen Boyang and Luo Shihong?
- What is the specific impact of campaign polls on voting results?
